[NBLUG/talk] nasty messages from the kernel

[micxz at slashdomain]

To tell you the truth I do not understand the problem was in terms of 
that post either. I thought you might be able to make sense of it. The 
link was simply to tell you were I found this info.

-- 
Micxz

another goggled link:
http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=index&action=viewtopic&topic=5111&forum=5&start=0


E Frank Ball wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 05:53:38PM -0700, micxz at slashdomain wrote:
> } 
> } Here's an excerpt from a posting to the NFS mailing list
> } from Neil Brown:
> } -------------Included message-----------------------
> }   Previously anonymous dentries were hashed (though with no name, the
> }   hash was pretty meaningless).  This meant that they would hang around
> }   after the last reference was dropped.  This was actually fairly
> }   pointless as they would never get referenced again, and caused a real
> }   problem as umount wouldn't discard them and so you got the message
> }                 printk("VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. "
> }                         "Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice 
> } day...\n");
> } 
> }   In 2.4.6-pre3 I stopped hashing those dentries so now when the last
> }   reference is dropped, the dentry is freed.  So now there will never be
> }   more anonymous dentries than there are active nfsd threads.
> } ---------------end included message-------------------
> } 
> } From:
> } 
> } http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg53163.html
> 
> 
> I don't fully understand all that (and the link), but it implies that
> the problem was fixed in 2.4.6 and I'm using 2.4.20-28.9smp (RedHat).
> I guess I'm seeing something a little different than the examples they
> used.
> 

-- 
Micxz